cgrealy

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by cgrealy 5y ago
I fail to see the relevance to this conversation, and I have zero desire to get into this on HN of all places. My point was about how some people cannot simply “agree to disagree” when important issues are at stake. I provided some simple e
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by cgrealy 5y ago
Generally, no, one does not respond to someone saying they're pregnant by suggesting an abortion. That's usually considered rude :D But not all pregnancies are wanted. I have had friends talk to me about their decision wrt an unwa
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by cgrealy 5y ago
Maybe, but you have to imagine at some point, things that are in the news will get discussed over a beer. And again, I'm talking about fairly fundamental things here. If someone is pregnant, that's pretty conversation worthy. I a
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by cgrealy 5y ago
Because in general, those conversations are about important things that affect your life. It's not as polarised these days, but it was within my lifetime that consensual homosexual sex between adults was illegal in many parts of the wo
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by cgrealy 5y ago
The "silent majority" is a specific reference. It was popularised by Nixon during the Vietnam war. It doesn't literally mean they are silent, just that they are not the focus of the media.
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by cgrealy 5y ago
While I agree in general, there are plenty of circumstances where people don't get to not have an opinion about things. For example, you can't "agree to disagree" on LGBTQ rights if you belong to one of those categories.
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by cgrealy 5y ago
It's a game. It's UI is full screen and completely divorced from "standard" UI elements (WIMP, etc). You can call it a desktop app, and you'd be correct in the most pedantic sense, but then every web app is also a d
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by cgrealy 5y ago
I completely agree, but this isn't just a VC problem. The entire current economic system incentivises this.
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by cgrealy 5y ago
From a dev perspective, absolutely. From a user perspective, no. Every Swing app I've ever used has been ugly, slow and painful. Now, that might be the fault of the developer, but at some point, you have to wonder if either all Swing d
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by cgrealy 5y ago
not really a desktop app though, is it? And Minecraft is also a notable outlier. Outside of mobile, there are very few games written in java on PC or consoles.
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by cgrealy 5y ago
> That leads to unreadable, hard-to-maintain, inefficient code that, with a tight coupling to the test suite that makes both them of fragile in the presence of changes in the other. For very little gain. I completely disagree with everyt
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by cgrealy 5y ago
The main value in TDD is not when you write the initial implementation. Sure, it can help, but most devs are competent enough to implement a function/class/whatever and have it do what the programmer thinks it will do. The value f
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by cgrealy 5y ago
If you are spiking, then you should be throwing away that code. Don't productionise prototypes.
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by cgrealy 5y ago
> One doesn’t design around tests No design gets to the coding stage until someone has answered "how will this be tested?" So, yeah, you should absolutely be designing around tests.
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by cgrealy 5y ago
What's stopping you? You don't even have to give up working in tech. I started learning joinery a year ago. I'm still terrible at it by professional standards, but I've made some bespoke furniture pieces for our house th
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by cgrealy 5y ago
Actually, I can't, because of stupid geo-restrictions (yes, I could use a vpn, that's not the point).
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by cgrealy 5y ago
The OS comparison is especially bad since we have seen very little meaningful competition in that space. Linux dominates the server space. Windows dominates the desktop/laptop market, with Apple a niche player and Linux even more niche
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by cgrealy 5y ago
No, it doesn't. It acknowledges that a diet for hunter-gatherers that rarely lived to 50 might not be best diet for a people who expend less energy and live far longer.
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by cgrealy 5y ago
Yeah, I completely agree with all of that. But again, this is an economic problem. In a perfect world, we'd have an infinite fund for doing science and you couldn't publish a paper until your results were reproduced. But we live i
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by cgrealy 5y ago
I'm not disagreeing that reproducibility is a problem. Of course it is. I'm asking how to fix it. How do we incentivise reproducibility?
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by cgrealy 5y ago
You mean the one for people whose life expectancy was less than half the modern day? Who lived completely different lives?
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by cgrealy 5y ago
Isn't that an economic problem rather than a scientific one? Science doesn't exist in a vacuum, it still needs humans to do grunt work and those humans need to be paid, and there isn't much money in replicating an existing st
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by cgrealy 5y ago
> Science does eventually self-correct, but unfortunately it takes far too long to do so. So kinda like the democracy then.... the worst system, apart from all the others (paraphrased)?
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by cgrealy 5y ago
Given it's almost certainly a ruleset generated by an ml agent, it's more likely to be a change in the training data.
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by cgrealy 5y ago
> What do you think the world would look like today if Arthur Wellesley hasn't been present at the Battle of Waterloo and Napoleon Bonaparte rolled over the Allied lines? Most likely, another general would have defeated Napoleon. We
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by cgrealy 5y ago
I am puzzled by the "oh no, this is erasing history" people. There are many people throughout history that are known and studied without being celebrated. Statues, windows, etc. are there to commemorate and celebrate people. If we
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by cgrealy 5y ago
> If you actually believed what you wrote, you wouldn't have included a "/shudder" at the end. In fact, you believe that Shakespeare is better than Dan Brown to the point that disagreement makes you uncomfortable. Tha
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by cgrealy 5y ago
>my father said "that's not true, you can claim Shakespeare isn't good but you're wrong". Could not disagree more. Your father can claim Shakespeare is good, but that doesn't make him right. I think Shakespe
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by cgrealy 5y ago
And you latched onto my opening statement and ignored the actual point I was making about accurate legal records. so I guess we're two peas in a pedantic pod :)
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by cgrealy 5y ago
I don't think I am. Your original point was that your name was "unpronounceable". I don't believe that to be true. Your name may be difficult to pronounce for native English speakers, but it's not impossible.

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